Firewall Settings – Throttle vs Block
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It’s widely reported that when a bot hits a site repeatedly for a non-existent file, it creates a database lookup before delivering the dynamic 404 page. When this is done thousands of times by bots, etc., it uses up an enormous amount of database resources and can cause a server to crash. To thwart these efforts, we’ve used W3TC for caching AND to deliver a static 404 page, to decrease server load.
My question is if we use the Firewall settings in your plugin, would it do the same or similar? Specifically, if a crawlers pages not found exceeds xyz, throttle it.
Last, what is the difference between throttle or block?
I’d rather not use another plugin (ie W3TC) when the Falcon caching is really good. That is IF it can also handle these excessive database (404 error) requests, too.
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